Responsibilities
Coordination of pre- and postgraduate GSN teaching (contact, booking, advertisement); implementation of new teaching modules; joint organization of FUN program; joint organization of GSN/ENB intro and interview week; joint decision on student support
Contact
Dept. Biology II
Division Neurobiology
Großhaderner Straße 2
D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Room: B03.022
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-74182
Fax:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-74304
Email:
Kaiser.Alexander@lmu.de
Further Information
Research focus:
1 Physiology and anatomy of the descending auditory system
2 Binaural auditory evoked potentials
3 Stress-related neuropeptides in the auditory system
4 Physiology and anatomy of the cochlea and vestibular organs in mutant rodents
5 Neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus
Key words: Systems neurobiology, molecular neurobiology, developmental neurobiology
Selected publications:
Kaiser A, Alexandrova O and Grothe B. (2011) Urocortin-expressing olivocochlear neurons exhibit tonotopic and developmental changes in the auditory brainstem and in the innervation of the cochlea. J Comp Neurol 519: 2758-2778.
Schirmer M, Kaiser A, Lessenich A, Lindemann S, Fedrowitz M, Gernert M and Löscher W. (2007) Auditory and vestibular defects and behavioral alterations after neonatal administration of streptomycin to Lewis rats: Similarities and differences to the circling (ci2/ci2) Lewis rat mutant. Brain Res 1155: 179-195.
Santoso A, Kaiser A and Winter Y. (2006) Individually dosed oral drug administration to socially-living transponder-tagged mice by a water dispenser under RFID control. J Neurosci Methods 153: 208-213.
Kaiser A, Fedrowitz M, Ebert U, Zimmermann E, Hedrich H-J, Wedekind D and Löscher W. (2001) Auditory and vestibular defects in the circling (ci2) rat mutant. Eur J Neurosci 14: 1129-1142.
Kaiser A and Manley GA. (1994) Physiology of single putative cochlear efferents in the chicken. J Neurophysiol 72: 2966-2979.
Manley GA, Brix J and Kaiser A. (1987) Developmental stability of the tonotopic organization of the chick's basilar papilla. Science 237: 655-656.